Shirin Neshat

by Valentina Vitali, Beatrice Stammer, Beatrice E. Summers, et al.

When the novella Women without Men was published in Tehran in 1989, it was promptly banned and its author, Shahrnush Parsipur, imprisoned. Fifteen years later, Shirin Neshat has begun to make a film based on Parsipur s work, which will become her first feature-length work. The first installments, documented here, introduce the lives of five women who find themselves in a deceptively paradisiacal garden after a difficult journey. Neshat s subversively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865212298
• ISBN13: 9783865212290
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.7" x 10.1"